Publishing giant Penguin Random House has inked a potentially lucrative deal with Netflix for the rights to all 23 books in the popular Redwall series, by author Brian Jaques. The world’s dominant streamer is now planning an animated feature film and TV series based on the animal adventure franchise, which is aimed at a middle school children’s audience. The Redwall series comes with a large, built-in audience, having sold 30 million copies worldwide. The books chronicle the adventures of a society of heroic animals that inhabit the forest haven of Redwall Abbey. It is the first time that the film rights to the entire series of books have been held by a single company and Netflix is already working on the adaptations for film and a series. The streamer has… . . . read more